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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “If that money has been appropriate, we will spend that…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Senate Budget Hearing with Tammy Baldwin and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Lead Poisoning and Head Start Funding

Published | Video Starts at 03:11

… there to pick up the phone, and it's not because this program is ineffective, it's because you fired the entire team whose job it is to support communities like Milwaukee. If that money has been appropriate, we will spend that money. If it's been appropriate to Milwaukee, who will spend it in Milwaukee? I've spent a lot of time in Milwaukee working here. Provide expert. And the entire staff has been fired. (03:11–03:19)

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Asserts that if funding has been appropriated, it will be spent, including in Milwaukee.

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